It’s okay to want to lose excess fat, but think again if you believe that tracking the calorie burn of all your daily activities will help you lose weight. Do you often refer to “calories [...]
Which will best give you a physically fit body? Housework, cardio exercise or strength training (weight workouts)? […]
Okay, so housework burns calories. So does sleeping. You're alive, you burn calories, but housework will not lead to significant or even moderate weight loss. In fact, being that you've already been doing housework all [...]
Find out why it’s a mistake to think that shoveling snow replaces your scheduled cardio or strength training workout for the day. Shoveling snow elevates heart rate and makes one breathe faster, and the more [...]
If you suddenly decide that housework counts as true exercise, does this then magically make it so? One of the biggest gimmicks over the past decade or so is this idea that housework gets included [...]
“There has been a marketing trend propagated to convince people that everyday chores like cleaning a house is exercise,” says Steve Cotter, Director, International Kettlebell and Fitness Federation (IKFF). Cotter continues, “It’s an attractive concept because, [...]
Housework does not replace structured exercise, and thus, is a poor tool to rely upon for any fitness goal, including weight loss. The BMC Public Health journal (October, 2013) has the latest report on the [...]
